A GREAT and painful sensation thrilled the metropolis yesterday morning when the news spread with astonishing rapidity that Mr Charles Stewart Parnell, MP, had been arrested. It is not too much to say that every man received the intelligence with bated breath, and it is nothing but the truth to add that in the minds and hearts of many, who wish our country well, the amazement was mixed with alarm.

The citizens were on their way to business when Mr Parnell was on his way to Kilmainham, and the latter went as contentedly to his bastille as did the others to their respected avocations.

The details of the illustrious gentleman's arrest have a transcendent interest. After the reception of Sunday in the town of Wexford, and the acknowledgment of the freedom of that borough conferred upon him on Monday, when he said, "I am frequently disposed to think that Ireland has not yet got through the troubled waters of affliction to be crossed before we reach the promised land of prosperity, " he proceeded to his house in Wicklow. He arrived in the city by the last train from Bray, and stayed on Wednesday night at his usual city residence, Morrisson's Hotel, Dawson St, his intention being to proceed yesterday morning to the County Convention announced to be held that day at Naas.

His arrangement was to travel to Sallins by the 10.15am train. Though this detail was not generally known, the whole world, if it cared to know, was aware that he proposed speaking at the Naas convention. Her Majesty's government knew it well, for all Mr Parnell's movements are perfectly open; and having arrested the hon Member for Tipperary while on his way to the Parliament of the Empire, they decided to intercept Mr Parnell while on his way to the convention.

Evening Press 13 October 1967

THE Dublin priest who yesterday slated the Corporation's sub-standard accommodation at Keogh Sq and elsewhere today said that to solve the problem in the city an attack would have to be made from at least ten levels. Fr Peter Lemass, CC, Bray, said that nowhere in his travels, including the shanty towns of Hong Kong, had he seen conditions more degrading, an atmosphere more depressing and environment more hopeless than in Keogh Sq, Inchicore.

He was speaking at the annual meeting of the ISPCC.

Today he said that only a great co-operative effort could solve the massive problem in the square . . .

housing, re-education and social work being the most important. These people need friendship and advice and not criticism. The St Vincent de Paul and the Legion of Mary were doing great work there, but their efforts were not enough.

"The whole community must help, " he added. Fr Lemass, who is a member of the Radharc TV film unit, described Keogh Sq, as "an old army barracks of grey granite slabs that was unfit for habitation 10 years after the British army moved out."

Sanitation was primitive, water often failed, windows were as often out as in place, walls were like subterranean streams and landings and hallways were fouled by dogs and others. Of the children, he said: "You could see them suffer. You can see it in their pinched pale faces, in their raucous shouts as in gangs they parade the roads at night, in the aimless lounging of out of work adolescents, in the snotty noses of the young ones, raggy clothes, trousers too long, mouths sticky and black."